The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 72

Labakan made a shrewd guess that all these people had come here on his account; but he checked his impatience, knowing that only on the fourth day could his wishes be fulfilled.

Who acts: Labakan, people · What happens: make, come, check, know, fulfil, account · To what, where: shrewd guess, account, impatience, wishes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Labakan, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 guess	det
4	shrewd	shrewd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 guess	amod
5	guess	guess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 come	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 people	det:predet
8	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 people	det
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 come	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
11	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 guess	acl:relcl
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 come	advmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 account	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 account	nmod:poss
15	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 checked	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 checked	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 checked	nsubj
19	checked	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 impatience	nmod:poss
21	impatience	impatience	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 checked	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 knowing	punct
23	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 checked	advcl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 fulfilled	mark
25	only	only	ADV	_	29 day	advmod
26	on	on	ADP	_	29 day	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 day	det
28	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 day	amod
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fulfilled	obl:unmarked
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 fulfilled	aux
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 wishes	nmod:poss
32	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 fulfilled	nsubj:pass
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 fulfilled	aux:pass
34	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 knowing	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	make	past	Labakan	a shrewd guess			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guess=Product
2	come	past · perfect	all people	a shrewd guess	Labakan's account; here		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme
3	check	past	Labakan	Labakan's impatience			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impatience=Theme
4	know	gerund	Labakan not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	fulfil	could · passive		Labakan's wishes		day	tree rules
6	account		Labakan				nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent
7	wish		Labakan				nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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